folks, the lack of consensus is quite expected. putting many low-level details aside, the deep reason for that is the following, i think.
it occurred to me in some off-line discussions here, that folks are still looking for scalable routing which would work for any possible network topology. as mentioned way back in http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1273445.1273450 scalable routing for arbitrary networks cannot exist. in fact, it's intuitively easy to see, but it's also a proven fact, like a theorem. therefore the task of building a scalable routing solution for *arbitrary* networks cannot succeed in principle. the only option is to look for solutions which would work only for *specific* networks, e.g., the global internet :) such solutions may be efficient and scalable if they find a way to intelligently utilize network peculiarities. best, -- dima. http://www.caida.org/~dima/ _______________________________________________ rrg mailing list [email protected] http://www.irtf.org/mailman/listinfo/rrg
